Method of making door-plates



. H. D. KRAMER. Methpd of Making Door-Plates.

- No. 223,740. Paten ted Jan. 20-, 1880..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HOMER D. KRAMER, OF BEAVER, PENNSYLVANIA.

METHOD OF MAKING DOOR-PLATES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,740, dated January 20, 1880.

' Application filed September 1, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOMER D. KRAMER, of Beaver, in the county of Beaver, and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the'ManufactnreofLettered Plates; and Idohere'bydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of IO reference marked thereon, making a part of r5 in'the employment of blocks of any suitable material formed with raised letters and having extended surfaces above and below the letters, as well as on the sides, if desired, said surfaces being capableof being ornamented and reproduced on the plate by electrotyping or other similar processes, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth; Y

In the annexed drawings, Figure l is a front view of a name-plate made according to my Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same. Fig. 3 represents lettered blocks used in manufacturing my name-plates.

A- represents the rim, having an offset ata to receive the plate B5 The rim is beveled around the edge, as shown at b, to stand off from the article tonvhich it is attached, so that the rim can be cleansed or polished without defacing such article.

The name or lettered plate B is made in the followingmanner: I employa series of blocks,

the block, as shown at d, and also, if desired,

on one or both sides of the letter. This surface may then be ornamented in any desired August, 1879.

manner by dots, grooves, or other figures, so as to form a contrast with the face of the letter. The lettered blocks 0 are set up in a chase and locked in the same manneras a printer would prepare type. Then, by elctrotyping or similar process, a solid plate is produced having the name in raised letters and the top surface of the plate reproduced with the precise ornamentation shown on the top surfaces of the lettered blocks. Q

By electrotyping, in this connection, I mean the usual way of forming a matrix by covering the raised blocked letters with wax, and in said matrix then forming the plate.

Plates of this character may be used for door-plates or any other purposes for which a lettered plate may be applied, and when made as above the raised letters on the plate may be plated, while the surface of the plate outside of the letters shows the same ornamentation as that on the blocks.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The method hereinbefore described of making solid door-plates with raised letters thereon, consisting in first taking separate blocks of suitable material having a single raised lettcr thereon and having flanged margins above and below, and arranging said blocks according to the name or words desired and locking them in a frame or form, and then forming'patterns or matrices, and finally, by electrotyping or stereotyping, forming therein plates having raised letters, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of HOMER D. KRAMER. Witnesses:

S. P. SToNE,

THOMAS ALLIsoN. 

